Lightroom Colors do not Match Windows

I have spent hours and hours trying to figure this out to no avail.
Dell u2410 monitor
Colormunki
Lightroom 4.3
Windows 7
I have gone through and calibrated the monitor according to Colormunki directions. It says it's saving a profile that windows and all of my programs will use. If I process a photo exactly as I want then export it srgb profile to my desktop and open with any other windows program it's significantly more pink.
I've looked through all of the advanced tab settings in color managment in control panel, but it's super confusing. How do I make what I'm editing to in lightroom match what I see in windows?
BTW...I had this problem before I calibrated the monitor as well, which is why I calibrated it. Actually it looks like windows views changed, but lightroom colors don't look any different than before profiling.
I'm so frustrated, this shouldn't be this difficult. I need to output some photo's to print in the next day or two and I now they are going to be messed up because I can't see the correct color.
Thoughts?

The effect produced by ColorMunki and similar tools consists of two independent parts: calibration and profiling.
Calibration is the process of adjusting your monitor/video card hardware to make it "as perfect as possible", i.e. to make your monitor and video card to display sRGB colors as accurately as possible by using their respective hardware adjustment capabilities. For monitor that involves adjusting brightness, contrast and independent RGB channel gains. For video card that involves loading so-called "color lookup table" (LUT) with more-or-less finely tuned values. Since calibration is a hardware adjustment, everything you do during calibration will affect all software running on your system, regardless of whether it is color-management-aware in any way or not. As long as the software sends sRGB data to the monitor, that data will be displayed more accurately after more accurate calibration.
However, with a typical monitor and/or video card calibration can only produce a roughly accurate results. It cannot make your monitor to work as a perfect sRGB device. There's simply not enough precision and/or flexibility in monitor controls.
So, this is where profiling comes into play. Profiling is perfomed after calibration. Profiling records all deviations from "perfect sRGB" your calibrated monitor still has, and stores these deviations in a color profile. Later, any color-managed software will pick up that profile. By using the data stored there, color-managed software will be able to dial-out any color imperfections your monitor still has after calibration. For example, if your calibrated monitor is still greenish, the profile will say that it is greenish, and the software will automatically dial-out some green from the image data before displayng it. The combined effect of the image data being "de-greened" by software and then "over-greened" (by the same amount) by the monitor will produce ideal (non-greenish) display.
However, only color-profile-aware software will use profiles and perform such adjustments to counterbalance calibration imperfections. All other (non-color-managed) software relies on calibration and calibration alone. So, in the above example, non-color-managed software will display greenish pictures while color-managed software will display the pictures perfectly.
Apparently, this is something that happens in your case. When you used your ColorMunki, did it ask you to use your monitor's RGB controls to adjust the channel gains independently in order to arrive at some white point? Does white look white your monitor or does white also look pinkish?
What your can also do is forget for a second about profiling software. Open your monitor's control panel and adjust it manually to your liking. Dial out any pinkness by using RGB controls (or use some standard preset). Adjust brighness and or contrast to the point where they "look good" to you. You may use some test picture and adjust the monitor manually to the point where the picture looks good to you.
Now, once you finished that, you can start the ColorMunki software and use it to profile your monitor only. Profile only. No calibration. Do not adjust anything, regradless of what ColorMunki tells you to do. Keep the current settings on your monitor and make ColorMunki to generate a profile for it. That way you will get the look you like in non-color-managed software while at the same time getting accurate display from color-managed software.

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